I saw this photo in the Gordon and Leslie Diamond Health Care Centre at Vancouver General Hospital. The facility is named for individuals who have made generous contributions to improve healthcare, the arts, education, and social services in British Columbia.
The general hospital and the ancillary units nearby have undergone significant changes since I was a student in the 1960s calling on my future wife at the student nurse baricades dormitories. I remember that young nurses, like other Canadian women, were then denied full freedom and participation in personal and professional lives.
The prospects of females in 2025 have changed greatly in the past half-century. My time at the Diamond Centre and the photograph of the city showed how much the city has changed as well.
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“I remember that young nurses, like other Canadian women, were then denied full freedom and participation in personal and professional lives.”
“The prospects of females in 2025 have changed greatly in the past half-century.”.
OK, someone remind me, when did Jesus tell us that women shouldn’t be allowed to vote? Anyone remember that?
https://www.rawstory.com/alternet-posts/maga-repeal-19th-amendment/
“Over the years, right-wing firebrand author Ann Coulter argued, on various occasions, that the United States needs to “reconsider women’s suffrage.” And during Trump’s second presidency, however, an increasing number of Christian nationalists and MAGA influencers are flat-out calling for the repeal of the 19th Amendment, which, in 1920, gave women nationwide the right to vote.”
“Dale Patridge, a far-right evangelical Christian nationalist pastor, said, “I think we should repeal the 19th Amendment because I love America.” Manosphere influencer Andrew Tate called for the U.S. to “stop letting women vote,” and anti-feminist Hanna Pearl Davis repeatedly calls for women to lose their voting rights. Another opponent of women’s suffrage is Idaho-based pastor Doug Wilson, an ally of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.”
“In a column published on December 4, The Guardian’s Moira Donegan warns that the movement to repeal the 19th Amendment is quite real among Christian nationalists and MAGA Republicans.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/04/women-right-to-vote-disenfranchisement”
“Calls for disenfranchisement rest on a single assumption: that women’s citizenship is partial and conditional”
“More and more, influential voices in the Maga movement and the far-right Republican party are calling to strip women of the franchise. It’s not that this is strictly a new development. Opposition to women’s voting rights has long been a fringe, but persistent, feature of the American right. It’s been a favorite hobby horse of extremist preachers; it trended among Trump supporters on social media in the lead-up to the 2016 election, when polls showed that Trump would win if only men voted. (As it happened, he won anyway.) In the century that followed the passage of the 19th amendment – which barred the United States or any state from restricting the vote on the basis of sex, and enfranchised hundreds of thousands of women when it was ratified in 1920 – opposition to women’s right to vote has simmered at the extreme edges of political opinion.”
“It was kept alive in large part in ultra-conservative Christian communities, which tend to cast women as something between children and property. Claiming women to be intellectually and morally unfit for citizenship, these sects declared that women should withdraw from the public sphere, including from political participation, and submit to the rule of their husbands.”
“Dale Partridge, also a pastor, justified his own opposition to women’s suffrage using a term of art that has become popular on the fringe right: “I think we should repeal the 19th Amendment because I love America and American women,” he said, “and want to protect our nation from their suicidal empathy.”(Emphasis mine.) Here, women are cast as supposedly naturally, inherently more empathetic than men are – and this, in turn, is undesirable, indeed suicidal. It is something of a back-handed compliment.”
“Like the racist “great replacement” theory and other strains of white nationalism, the opposition to women’s suffrage has entered the mainstream as the Republican party has radicalized. In August, defense secretary Pete Hegseth, who has been accused of sexual assault, reposted a video in which pastors explain their opposition to women’s right to vote, with the caption “All of Christ for All of Life” – a Christian nationalist slogan. (Hegseth, who denied the allegation, reached a settlement with the alleged victim.)”
American Exceptionalism at its most fragrant.
That could never happen here.
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